AuthorTopic: 8 Videos to Commemorate The Beatles' Final Concert, 43 Years Later (Read 696 times)

Mother JonesJanuary 30, 20128 Videos to Commemorate The Beatles' Final Concert, 43 Years Later

"January 30" means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. In 1649, Charles I of England marked the date by getting his head lopped off by angry parliamentarians. On the same day in 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. Exactly 51 years later, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as chancellor.And on January 30, 1969, some British rock band played its last concert on some rooftop in some part of London. There were four guys in the band, we think. One of the songwriters was from Liverpool. They might have done a show in Hamburg once or twice. Oh, and the group also had this peculiar affinity for never-ending pasturage of soft, red fruit with seed-studded façades....